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When I first found out that I was to write a paper on why everything happens for a reason, I thought it would be an easy task. I thought that I believed that everything happened for a reason in life , and I thought I knew why. When I sat down to write my paper, I ....

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.... raised as Baptist. My family doesn’t go to church every week, but when we do go we go to a Baptist church. We have also attended Lutheran and Protestant churches with friends. I feel that I have a close relationship with God even though I do not attend church on a regular basis. I was really never told by my parents that everything in life happens for a reason, nor was I told that what happens in life happens because of blind fate, they have always told me to make the best of my life and to go as far as I possibly can in life. So reasonably, I have always believed that I decide what happens in my life, and that there are many different paths ....